This refugee from a nightmare rates my atomic punch! 
Captain Marvel Adventures #102 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1949.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Earth Destroyer"
A despondent Professor Phineas Proteus decides there's nothing for it, and it's his duty to destroy the world. When Captain Marvel stops his first attempt, Proteus explains himself: he recently discovered a massive cloud of poisonous gases is soon to cover the Earth. He's actually trying to destroy the human race to spare them a painful, lingering caused by the cloud. He tries to burn the world to a cinder with a giant match he's devised, but this doesn't do anything except burn up all the dirt and dust, leaving everything and everyone completely pristine. Captain Marvel uses another giant match to burn up the gas cloud, leaving no trace.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Earth Destroyer"
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- Prof. Phineas Proteus
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- Boring Bomb
- Water Heating Reagent
- Ultra Fire Matches
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- Prof. Proteus' Plane
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Meets the Man Who Didn't Exist!"
The tiny, bitter Tim Tinker is reviled by everyone in his small town. He builds a robot he can control from inside to reinvent himself as Bull Barton, a huge, powerful man who can be the one to push around everyone he dislikes. At the same time, Billy visits looking into claims that this is a model town that's clean, happy and has no crime. This means Captain Marvel gets involved when he finds Barton beating up anyone he meets, but the villain bullies his way into a town council meeting and forces them to sign into law an order banning Captain Marvel from the city limits. He gets around this by returning as Billy, who taunts the bully into chasing him past the city limits where Marvel can legally fight him! A blow from the World's Mightiest Mortal shatters the robot shell, exposing Tim Tinker, who's the one exiled from town instead of Marvel.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Meets the Man Who Didn't Exist!"
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- Timothy Tinker
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- Earth-S
- Brentwood
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Magic Mix-Up"
A professor buys a used black magic book and begins mumbling some of the spells as he walks home, mocking the idea that any of them can actually conjure magic. Billy is nearby and changes to Captain Marvel to fight off the demons, living statues and other dangers the professor unwittingly summons. Confronting him, Cap fails to get him to believe anything happened, and the professor reads off a spell to prove the book doesn't contain any real magic powers. When nothing happens Cap starts to wonder if something else was the cause of the monsters he fought.
The last spell actually did create another danger: it summoned the evil wizard who wrote the book back from Hell, and he steals it from the professor in his sleep. Cap shows up, attempting to sneak into the professor's house so he can examine the book for himself, only to spot the wizard flying away on the back of a dragon. The wizard summons hordes of monsters to stop Cap, but they don't even slow down the World's Mightiest Mortal. Realizing he's faced with a foe he can't defeat, the wizard uses his last resort, a spell that sends him back to Hell. This leaves all the other spells in the book powerless so Cap gives it back to the professor, who remains unconvinced anything strange happened at all.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Magic Mix-Up"
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- Prof. Tweedle
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- Afreet Uglah
- Green Demon
- Dancing Skeleton
- Animate Racist Statue
- Wyvern
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- Ye Arts of Black Magic by Afreet Uglah, 1549
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Synopsis for Capt. Kid: "The Early Bird"
Captain Kid is upset that he never has a chance to eat breakfast before his morning paper delivery and wonders how best to assuage this. That night, he decides to set out some cookies and milk to enjoy first thing when he wakes up on his way out the backdoor to his bike without losing time! In the morning, he dives out of bed to turn off his alarm and finds his cookies and milk have been eaten! However, since he’s very busy and needs to leave, he leaves without figuring out this mystery. The next night and morning, the same thing happens and Captain Kid decides that a stray cat must be getting in his window, so he closes it. He decides that someone must be breaking into his house to do this and bikes out to the Extermination Shop to pick up two arm-sized mousetraps from Mr. Minater. That night, he sets the milk and cookies on the mousetraps and goes to bed, but he soon wakes up himself, revealing he’s been sleepwalking and eating his own breakfast, but with big mousetraps on both hands, they’re now too swollen for him to deliver papers!
Appearing in Capt. Kid: "The Early Bird"
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- Captain Kid
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- Mister Minater
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- Earth-S
- Podunk
- Captain Kid's House
- The Extermination Shop
- Podunk
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- Large Mousetraps
- Cookies and Milk
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Synopsis for Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Captain Marvel and The Adventure Within An Adventure...."
A distress call comes over the radio from due west, and Tawny asks if he can come with Captain Marvel to rescue the imperiled girl who called in. On the way, Tawny daydreams of helping Marvel rescue a beautiful girl from gangsters, evil cowboys, and an avalanche. He thinks he's still daydreaming when they battle space aliens to rescue the girl, and faints when she tells him that really happened!
Appearing in Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Captain Marvel and The Adventure Within An Adventure...."
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- Alien invaders
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- Unnamed Girl
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Notes
- Despite the cover, Captain Marvel and Prof. Tweedle are never attacked by a red-nosed ghost. Instead, Prof. Tweedle never discovers there were any magical happenings due to him reading a book of black magic. The ghost itself also never appears, though similarly goofy magical creatures do.
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